From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   Billy Joel recently guested on Bill Mahar's Club Random podcast. In   
   addition to the expected questions about his current health, he also   
   talked about the White Album when the pair began to discuss classic   
   double albums. "I'm not a big fan of the White Album, but some people   
   love it," he said. "I hear it as a collection of half-assed songs they   
   didn't finish writing because they were too stoned, or they didn't care   
   anymore. I think they had fragments and they put them on the album. I   
   think John [Lennon] was dissasociating at that point... I think Paul   
   [McCartney] was carrying the weight." Joel theorized that the band "had   
   their ups and downs" as to why the White Album took a dip in quality,   
   going on to explain: "Sometimes they were more prolific and sometimes   
   they weren't, and I hear that in some of those things."   
      
   Personally I think you could name the second side of Abbey Road as   
   containing "fragments of songs they didn't finish writing" over the   
   White Album. And "A Day In The Life" from Sgt. Pepper's was famously   
   patched together from fragments of songs of John's and Paul's.   
      
   I thought Joel was pretty consistent up through 1987's The Bridge   
   album. After that his albums were pretty spotty. Still a great artist   
   though.   
      
   Full interview here:   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UhXgiKmllw&feature=youtu.be   
      
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